RETURN To The Hardest Challenge In HOI4 - 30 Minutes of Hel

For those of you who don't know, the "30 Minutes of Hel" achievement requires you to play as Poland and survive for 30 minutes against the overwhelming military might of Germany. It's a difficult task that requires careful planning and execution, but with the right strategies, it's definitely achievable.

Throughout this video, I'll be providing a detailed guide on how to survive the German onslaught and secure victory. We'll cover everything from starting setup to army composition and division templates. I'll also share some of the lessons I learned from my previous attempt, including mistakes to avoid and tactics to try.

So, whether you're new to Hearts of Iron IV or a seasoned player, this video has something for everyone. So sit back, relax, and let's take on the "30 Minutes of Hel" achievement together!

00:00 30 Minutes of Hel
00:32 30 Minutes of Hel Guide
2:20 Allies in WW2
3:20 Poland Focus Tree Is Broken
6:10 EVERYONE Vs Poland
9:10 First Counterattack
11:05 First Encirclement
12:22 See The Sea
13:50 PUSH
14:20 Warsaw Uprising
15:10 Greater Poland

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Hearts of Iron IV is a grand strategy wargame developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. Released on June 6, 2016, it is the sequel to Hearts of Iron III and part of the Hearts of Iron series of grand strategy games focusing on World War II. The player may take control of any nation in the world in either 1936 or 1939 and lead them to victory or defeat against other countries.

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[FeedbackGaming]

Apparently some other YouTuber has made a video like this recently. My response, Ok

[renano]

Imagine the polish army liberates your town, conscripts literally everyone, then just leaves the town for the germans

[lukzombi]

There was a funny thing about Wieniawa-Sługoszewski (general that you picked for first army) - he was famous for his sharp tongue and sense of humor. One time he was chatting with some lady. She told him that she need a true gentleman. Wieniawa respond that he is a polish cavallery officer, so he is already a gentleman. She told him that the gentleman should be rich if he want to impress her. He replied that he is the man of noble blood with own estate. Finnaly she told that she need a man with... horse size "thing". Wieniawa said "That's it! I will not cut off about half meter of my "thing" just to have horse size!"

[rollypon]

30 minutes of hel is how long the game takes to render a day after 1945

[the-letter_s]

i like the little pushes into neighboring cities for manpower. like, the defenders of Warsaw ride in, say "GET IN LOSERS WE'RE DEFENDING THE HOMELAND" and suddenly the entire able-bodied populations of Plock and Radom are gone.

[theEWDSDS]

10:02 you forgot that while doing these "state raids" you can also use scorched earth on it, giving the AI an even harder time

[FelipeTempestad]

8:36 How funny to see that the Soviets made a pact with the Germans to split up Poland and they have been waiting for 3 years for their capitulation and their share of the cake. Thinking about it, it would be interesting to add mechanics so that if Germany fails to take Poland in a reasonable time after the Molotov-Riben pact, they are betrayed by the Soviet Union or something similar.

[maartencuyvers]

What a madlad. Doing it all over again :D

[soral]

Starting the day with a new feedback gaming? YES PLEASE! Thank you, Dave, for blessing us with this glorious video! Cheers!

[VanBourner]

"They're nuking Prague!"

Welp, that is worse version of the Valentine's Day of 1945

[janosik]

Witold Pilecki (your cavalry expert, second general) was a badass, he was a guy who went to a concentration camp himself, collected materials about what was going on there and then just casually fucked up from there and gave information to the allies, fought until the end of his life for free and independent Poland and unfortunately he was tortured and murdered by Russian communists in prison

[zioming]

13:35 From what I recall, Sten guns were made out of metal bed legs and any other random metal pipes people could get their hands on.

[The_Devout]

heres a tip for y'all raiway enthusiasts:
when creating a new railway, click from tile to tile.
any production - on vanilla - is capped at 15 factories. this means that a 3 tile railroad, like in the begining of this video, will take more and more time to create than 1 rail from lodz to the midway tile, 1 rail from warsaw to the midway tile. this cuts the time in halves as you now have 2 15-capped slots working on the same project

[BlackHammer]

Hatlessspider just yesterday released a video on this achevement too, but with a different new approach. New Polish focus tree makes a big difference

[ianb]

Really appreciate you redoing this achievement. Took me 12 tries to replicate the process.

[duhagumrukcu]

The first and only time i watched a vid from this channel, was this achievement, and i have returned to watch it again :D

[hasn]

You can store manpower from states at the beggining of the game

[Sifflkek]

I actually only gained the achievement recently and thus there wasn't yet any useful guide for BBA. So I figured Dave's old guide would still work. Unfortunately I soon realised that the AI wouldn't fall for the ol' encirclement trick. I eventually managed to do the achievement by pushing out of the pocket recklessly and then repelling German counterattacks, which had me pushed back to my capital so I could start all over again.

[LordDaret]

Another alternative spot to hold is in krakow. You can get a defensive line that includes a non-frontline province and you can keep free steel and tungsten down there, if I remember correctly.

[nickthegreek_f.t]

YESSS! I still remember the day I watched the video you made about this challenge. I loved it, and I can't wait to watch this video with the same excitement bro. ❤️